Thieves target students in Cleveland Heights-University Heights district for school-issued iPads

IPads are being stolen in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights schools. AP file

UPDATED: FRIDAY

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- More than12 middle school students in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District have been robbed of their school-issued iPads over the past two weeks, superintendent Doug Heuer said in a news release.

"This news frustrates and outrages us," he stated in the press release. "Many people know our middle school students carry iPads, making them targets for theft."

The students have been robbed before and after school.

To keep the students safe, the district collected the iPads before school ended Friday. Officials are currently in the process of purchasing carts at the school that will allow students to charge, store and lock the iPads at the end of each school day.

"The iPads provided our students with an important tool for learning outside of our school building and the school day that they may not have otherwise had access to," said Heur, said in a news release. "Unfortunately, the iPads will remain in the school buildings as long as we and our local police departments feel our students are being preyed upon."

The superintendent said that the district is working with the University Heights, Cleveland Heights, and South Euclid Police Departments to find the thieves.

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